Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-07-09
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY.
A rORosRLR - ,soUssiOk 0S rms sUS-
Js0r Hh ar ar OO0M TO ~.


In" Wtm un'Nt'S"y ""' " "oo''
meanings IN lhO sauie c"uu"y snu n
many more sgnthcati0nS IN u1u6r0n
countries that Il is hardly worth our while r.
spcud ttu,o IN uyiuv 10 arrive nj q sd called
GOV rect definition oil Of them arc
ptOtwhiy cWrec, enough In Germany &
university is u group OF professional schools,
which t,tep ue their students for law. u,e,ii 4.
cine, theology and teAching, pebble ad min.
tsiration, aud other professions They must
include a law schoOl, n theological faculty, q
,siicsl faculty. and u ~ called nh ,his,nl
faculty In order to be entitled IL that name
though they often include inors-aa agricui.
tur", aud forestry. Their stu eots ~ rule
Tor the hve professions mentiopeL abOve
must be graiuao' ut a gyinnssium Or rsni
school- Schools which cover about tho same
range oi studies ~ our ordinary college,
leaving out logic, uinsnt science, political
tConouy, philosophy, 40
The stndcus entsr ON their sptsiHs train.
ipg work when they enter the uniys,niiv.
locking for Ard u.u,liv with an .ya air vis,
TO tho state oxaul,uatinn which u,oat of than
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uniysrsities and ,,e ,e, ns ,i(i,rent Irom
o,,. auotber as can to Imagined i.nndon in
a mero .x.miuiuy b,lx Ox i,rd hns no nvo
t..s,nns, .rbnois - b,,h would l,o.r co,u,,.,i
,on for a m neut with those OF BERLIN
In ttts p,n.r.l q nfusion ,,f tho meant In o.
of tho term. ,i n can bs s.ii Ia have aver had
u clear meaning, wo are certainly entitled 70
take our choice ot meanings aud use 4. ~
we please
Lot us assume that Il means tho higher
educational institution OF tbs cOuntry--an
acknow edged literary, scientific, aud pro-
Tess onAl centre
What, then, siIr uii the highest ed ucati tionWI
centre IN tho country Include " Thin itself IN
order to represent u complete specimen Of
the tyre?
The Fundamental idea of tho uniyersty--
that upon which II must bs built up--thst
Tor " hirh IL exi .ts A., tn nv mind. thu prO,,,O
ton ot science In every dcp.rtmsn,- natural.
moral philU Usopbir Theological legal, ms,ii,
cal, pedagoyt,ai, linguistic, historical nlRthe-
ma,icai phy sicsi, This should ever to kent
In vIew-no matter what form Of orvAnizn.
ton may be a,ionttsi
But ns the prog rcss of srienco il LARGELY
promoted by developing the pr0tessions
which are most intimately connected with ,ts
yafious aspects this end can bs In 1t attained
by organizing IN aud Aipput the university ~
Integral parts oi II y uunber Of professional
schools. Just what these professional
schools suali la depends on tho irci instances
of the cDurtIy and the time Only this
SHOULD bc kent In mind, that IL ~ desirable
th, tho in Il I.nco %, such a centre should bs
brought To bear on ~ many aS possible OF
those W ho arc des mod u bs tho controlling
minds Ot society and that ind ,Icsuieuts must
CONSEQUENTLY n, ieli out tn th,.s pern,rs
which W III attract tnsn
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inc centre. 4. destined Ia nice, th.s, Two
snd. bu, W., may he assured ,t,.t ,hev nu.t
bs met In some way IT tho A mericAu univer.
SHY II To iulhii IT'S highest purpose.
ih'N" th'hSs th"h mus. w. ket' III IuIi
Hio" llnersi einct,un' n'rtpino'ion "i science,
P'"loS-ooa' Shu 'echh'''i " 'hhe "y h'in
WI" y swapping tho American unworthy ot
we Intnt" oar wants arc huit'iAtious
Many "i ih"h sf- -'i'ii!ar 10 thn-e OF the oiu
World Som, I them arc different They
grow out OF our pecuIiar economic and Po
lticsi conditions our uomocracy imposes
some cohain"ns-'n"k"s our problems III
some 'het-ure dii'icnit IN solve. Ia this re.
sP'.t We ah'i 80 work Tor the olh Mofla
snh mus pay hIch I" some extent our ueot oi
nohsa'"h !" ohf 'ath"r's"ds or WIN ti'ne
they 'nus' hr'inH ""'n,"Ia'ic also, aud tiieir
mts"nt 'nsnih'" '"hs anu tuuo'ti"h ~ Wen ~
where VIII psc"ho uhwotsAbio anu " ny
mat tt'he ~eshal nave "o'k"u OUT = huhiNetsi'
~ upon an"ihS.alc OASIS mere WIN bo iiincn
IN our tAPeteh"" 10 Aiu theh' AZ pfessnt,
however We remain largely III .neI. uenI
only We must not ny any means be satisheu
with what They have attained. We have
much I" learn from study OF German, En-
s'ish aha fr'hch cohni'i"hs put there ~ III
ue III any o' tbein "hicn We can transfer W
ms soil ana clitiiA'e. lhe nsfihati, the
fIehchlnar' ana even the Engiishman ON
coming mere 10 ii'e mas hi'nseii kfaduaiiy
Transformed INTO ahother being anu with
new oulio"k, new ieeiinss' even new phys
iognohy. lhe 'vriiiah' or rrehch or I'm
shsh institution must undergo sstlil moro
ra"ical chanRe
MISSION OF THE AMERICAN UNIvERSIrY.
Tho American uniyersitv must do sor us
I;.rmany. and mnre. IL mustd do for ne what
the En.,,.h % nn,,s,.;,.s hsx" aona for Ens'
land aud more II ,nn.t do ,nr mo what TIA
scotch uuiversi,,,s have done ,or Scn,isna
and more.
II ,uust becone a ceptre of sn.a,iaI In vexti,
CATION i'm every line of human s,ience-must
further the study Of every suhiect To which
the buu,,u, in,eIiect turns i,s SERIOUS attain
tiop,nu at set betore itselr science M An ond
In itself and the promotion of n "A the high
eat of mer.lv human ends. II must prensre
the trained suecisIists W ho ara IN dira,t tia
work of sOcisty in every dppartment 1t
must I'm "A word do thai which bas vat its
Distinctive mark upon the German untyers,ty
and has made IL tb., intel usl laboratory Of
m0,srn ciyiljza atom i'm which nO much that IN
valuable has l.en discoyored and sent forth
10 do its psrtect work among lhe nations of